Increase your Windows and Office Productivity
I’m a big fan of Keyboard Shortcuts. Revit, Windows, AutoCAD – I believe they are all faster when you use keys instead of the mouse alone. I have previously posted about Revit keyboard shortcuts on va…
Luke Johnson
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Heaps of Potential Blog Posts here! Calling all Revit bloggers …
There are a number of lists provided in a recent KnowledgeSmart post – these basically summarise the main problems people are currently having with Revit. Things like:• Resetting Shared Coordinates (w…
How to Transfer Stand-Alone Licenses Online (License Transfer Utility)
You need to move your Stand Alone Autodesk license to a new computer, either permanently or temporarily. Solution Most Autodesk products (including those available for Mac) include a tool called the L…
Do you want to talk to a Raspberry Pi?
This is so funny! One Raspberry Pi to receive your text input and display it on an LCD, another to capture the webcam image and stream it back to the web… Sometimes live here: Raspberry Pi Webcam How …
A View Template cannot have the same name as a View
Its just something that Revit does not Want:…
Clear all mapped drives – use with care!
NET USE * /DELETE /Y via login script to remove mapped drives…
Free RSS to PDF automation
I previously posted about my large library of archived Revit blog posts. I then got a request from Mr Stewart to shed some light on how I automate the RSS to PDF process. It is a lengthy process, and …
Using the TAB key – inconsistency between Status Bar and Preselection
Using my laptop with Revit 2013 and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics card, I came across an interesting bug. Using the Tab key, nothing seemed to be working. But this is what was actually happe…
BIM finally starting to pay off for AEC firms ??
The more difficult question in light of this article would seem to be – how do you separate and distinguish your BIM revenue / ROI from that you would be producing as a simple CAD firm? A couple of in…
Scale and Measure from Photographs in Revit
I rarely advertise for paid programs. In this case, the program is still useful in Trial mode, so I’ll make an exception. Basically, download the trial and install it. Then open Help and go to Geometr…